Five people were killed and at least six others hospitalised following a shooting targeting a bank yesterday in downtown Louisville, in the US state of Kentucky, according to police who said the assailant had been neutralised.

At least two migrants have died and around 20 others are missing after their vessel sank in the Mediterranean between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship told AFP.

The Philippines will not allow “any offensive actions” from the bases it has opened to US troops, President Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Vietnam later this week in the latest bid to build relations with a growing US partner as tensions flare with China over Taiwan, the State Department said yesterday.

Russian forces are pressing attacks in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, focusing on two cities and pounding Ukrainian positions with air strikes and artillery barrages, Kyiv said yesterday.

Five people were killed and eight others were wounded in a shooting attack on Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, the city's police department said.

Israeli forces killed one Palestinian in a raid on a refugee camp near Jericho in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Highly classified military and intelligence documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine's air defences to Israel's Mossad spy agency, have United States officials scrambling to identify the leak's source, with some Western security experts and US officials saying they suspected it could be someone from the US

An avalanche on Sunday near Mont Blanc in southeastern France swept four people to their deaths and left two more missing, the officials said

French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published yesterday that Europe must not be a “follower” of either the US or China on Taiwan, saying that the bloc risks entanglement in “crises that aren’t ours”.

A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian missiles struck a house in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said yesterday.

Iran’s foreign ministry said yesterday a delegation will visit Saudi Arabia by Friday to pave the way for reopening its diplomatic missions there following a similar move by Riyadh.

Police and fire officials in the German city of Hamburg warned locals of possible toxins in the air after fires broke out early yesterday at multiple storage facilities.

Saudi and Omani delegations arrived in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Houthi-run media said yesterday, to negotiate a permanent ceasefire deal with Houthi officials and end Riyadh’s military involvement in the country’s long-running war.

China’s military simulated precision strikes against Taiwan in a second day of drills around the island yesterday, with the island’s defence ministry reporting multiple air force sorties and that it was monitoring China’s missile forces.

Israel launched artillery strikes on Syria yesterday morning, the Israeli army announced, after several rockets were fired from there and landed in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

A Saudi delegation was in Yemen's capital today to negotiate a potential new truce with the Iran-backed Huthi rebels who control the city, diplomats said, as Riyadh sought a way out of the war..The Saudi officials are "in Sanaa to discuss moving forward to create peace in Yemen," said a Ye

Thousands of worshippers held tense celebrations in Jerusalem Today, as Christian Easter coincided with Jewish Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid a surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict..Leading Easter Mass at the Vatican, Pope Francis expressed "deep conce

Chinese fighter jets and warships simulated strikes on Taiwan today as they encircled the island during a second straight day of military drills that were launched in response to its president meeting the US House speaker.

Israeli jets hit Syrian military targets on Sunday in response to rockets launched towards Israeli controlled territory overnight, Israel's military said, as violence flared again following cross-border exchanges of fire during the week